Are carbon handlebars safe?
The short answer is “yes”, although the longer answer is a little more complicated. For some reason, as an industry we’ve become fixated on the weight of handlebars. It’s as though breaking the 200g barrier will allow an average rider to suddenly contend for an alpine stage of the Tour de France. This, of course, is not the case. It’s an irrational obsession that has serious ramifications in regards to the care and feeding of your bike. A lot of very nicely made & very thoroughly tested carbon bars exist today. We need to accept the fact, though, that carbon bars have their Achilles heels. For example, you clamp aero bars to only one or two carbon bar models on the market today. Most aren’t built to withstand such clamping force. And while carbon bars can handle unbelievable forces pushing downward on the tops or the drops, they aren’t as robust in terms of the side-loaded forces a bike has to withstand during a crash. If you’re trying to build a tricked-out, superlight bike are carbon
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